Lord Prior; pic courtesy of uk.parliament
The minutes of the Cabinet meeting (see http://bit.ly/19zxFqT ) reveal on 10 November 1983 Jim Prior, then Northern Ireland Secretary, proposed not to have a full Tribunal of Inquiry – the same mechanism, used to investigate the Bloody Sunday atrocities, the North Wales child abuse scandal and the Dunblane massacre.
The minutes reveal the Cabinet – who included the now all ennobled Leon Brittan, then home secretary, Michael Heseltine,defence secretary and Norman Fowler, social services secretary, bought the Royal Ulster Constabulary line that there was nothing in it. He said he was being “pressed to hold an inquiry under the Tribunals of Inquiry”. But he didn’t believe Parliament would buy it.
But he said two police investigations had discovered nothing and no further criminal charges were likely.
Instead he proposed to hold a much lesser inquiry, which he did later, to, as he put it “to halt further spread of rumour and unfounded allegations.”
This particular Cabinet minute now looks sick in view of the decision of the Police Service in Northern Ireland to re-open an investigation into the historic allegations at the children’s home where children were sexually abused in the 1970s and early 1980s. As Fiona O’Cleirigh reported on Exaro News the scandal will now be re-opened.
The question is were Thatcher’s Cabinet in 1983 hopelessly naive or were they covering up something they did not want to be ruthlessly exposed in the public domain.
Westminster Confidential 
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Hope the info I recently gave you is linked to recent post. Kincora is the tip of this iceberg.
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The truth eventually no matter how long it takes always comes out.
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That is something we can never know…
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The Thatcher Cabinet was certainly up to no good. Thatcher turned a blind eye to Peter Morrison’s paedophilia. Jim Prior needs to be brought to book.
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this article flatters to decieve, very little information.
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What was Mrs T doing on wed the 25.8.1982. Well it appears our great PM was really busy. Her only work that day was at 10am she was at the dentist and at 6pm she had her hair done. Obviously no time to discuss the Elm, or perhaps it just got left off of her diary.
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Addendum: Source tells me it was 9am not 10am she was at her dentist.
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reeks of cover up ….
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Sorry to put an Elm Guest House update here but I know lots of people read DH’s blog. Worth looking at the Wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_Guest_House in particular the section ‘Reported scope of Operation Fairbank’ paragraph two.
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Kincora surely they mean Lisburn…
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This is once again very important to read in light of developing news.
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Rumours were rife back then.people we should trust let the people down yet again!democracy is a farce
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